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31 [lbo-talk] Jesus Christ! I just saw The Passion . . . -- rank: 728

... as much as could have been expected for a dramatization of a Roman scourging and crucifixion. It is also about as anti-Semitic as the Gospel of John, which is to say, it is anti-Semitic in that way that only the very ur-text of anti-Semitism can be. Every despicable trope of classic Jew-hatred is here, including a sensitive Pontius ...

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Author:	John Lacny
Date:	Thu Feb 26 06:18:06 PST 2004

32 [lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger -- rank: 712

... probably take some medication for whatever condition makes him incapable of engaging others without calling them stupid. the desire to give the 'flat out D' to jerry monaco should be kept private ... what jerry means when he says (1) that what is of value in heidegger can be reduced to 'attitudes' (since i ... statement), and (2) that when actually trying to make sense of a writer it is necessary to actually ask the simple question "Is what the writer says true in ...

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Author:	Louis Kontos
Date:	Mon May 15 17:59:03 PDT 2006

33 [lbo-talk] How the Grinch Stole Marriage -- rank: 709

... daughter. Better than Chip's haikus, says I. Todd] > >How the Grinch Stole Marriage >by Mary Ann Horton, Lisa and Bill ... Gay down in Gayville liked Gay Marriage a lot...... >But the Grinch, who lived just east of Gayville, did NOT!! > >The Grinch hated happy Gays! The whole Marriage season! >Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason. >It could be his head wasn't screwed ...

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Author:	Todd Archer
Date:	Sat Nov 20 11:42:01 PST 2004

34 [lbo-talk] M. Parenti joins the New Atheists? -- rank: 706

... at 7:38 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > So, which is the real meaning, "a voice crying in the wilderness, > prepare me the way of the lord" or "a voice crying, in the > wilderness prepare me ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Thu Mar 25 12:11:07 PDT 2010

35 [lbo-talk] more on why movies suck -- rank: 703

... Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > Someone, I think one of Tokien's friends, claimed the background was WW > 1. > > He himself always denied hotly that the work was allegorical. But one > passage near the end sort of confuses things. The villains back in > Hobbit-land describe their operations as " ...

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Author:	Gar Lipow
Date:	Fri Nov 20 19:32:13 PST 2009

36 [lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger -- rank: 700

... 15/06, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote: > What the fuck do I bother? > > Good God Jerry you have just demonstrated that you > know jack shit about the subject you are talking > about.... > apparently to the ears of the deaf or the > really, really stupid,... > If you came to a hypothetical ...

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Author:	Jerry Monaco
Date:	Mon May 15 08:05:39 PDT 2006

37 [lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger -- rank: 700

... and shallow ontology we end up with a disconnected bricolage of ideas that can be found in the mystery paperback section of the used book store or can't stand up on their ... s ontology for two seconds, but I find a lot of value in his insights as disconnected from that drive shaft. If (as some think) the labor theory of value or value theory or whatever ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Sun May 14 09:43:36 PDT 2006

38 [lbo-talk] Narnia -- rank: 697

... it. As reluctant as I am to show any signs of dissent from my wife, I'm moved to forward this entertaining review from the FT. She went to see the film when I was out of town knowing that I wouldn't have gone anywhere near ... December 8, 2005 All aboard for a nightmare trip to the hereafter By Nigel Andrews It is never too late to ... them enough. That they never read C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia to me in my childhood showed ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 18 19:42:15 PST 2005

39 Fwd: Detailed review of Nike court decision -- rank: 694

From: "J. Ballinger" <jeffreyd at mindspring.com> Subject: Detailed review of Nike court decision Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 18:11 ... can be sued over its corporate policy statements Mike McKee The Recorder May 3, 2002 In a ruling that's sure to send a chill wind down Madison Avenue, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that companies can be sued ... campaigns. Voting 4-3 in a case involving Nike Inc., the justices, relying on U.S. Supreme Court case law, said statements by the Oregon-based shoemaker denying allegations that some overseas factories are sweatshops were a form of commercial speech not protected by the First Amendment. "Because ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 3 20:45:34 PDT 2002

40 [lbo-talk] real movies for kids -- rank: 688

... kids, but for a general audience, which children will enjoy? Of course, there are different age brackets of kids, as well as levels of familiarity with the background involved. And there is also the all-important presence of an adult parent or guardian to help answer questions ...

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Author:	Louise Mowder
Date:	Sun Feb 11 10:32:21 PST 2007

41 [lbo-talk] His Dark Materials -- rank: 685

***** The New York Times January 25, 2004 Staging the Next Fantasy Blockbuster By SARAH LYALL LONDON The unassuming man at the end of the eighth row slipped quietly from his seat during the final applause for the sold-out performance of "His ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Jan 31 07:31:14 PST 2004

42 politics of lord of rings -- rank: 685

... at nationalpost.com> >Right-wing thinkers and publishers, who introduced the Italian public to the >fantasy classic in the 1970s, see the 1,000-page tome by Britain's J.R.R. >Tolkien as a celebration of their own values of physical strength, >leadership and integrity. IIRC, Tolkien was hardly ...

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Author:	Scott Martens
Date:	Fri Jan 18 12:53:44 PST 2002

43 ... lbo-talk] Importing Russia's blockbuster: 'Night Watch' comes to the United States -- rank: 682

Importing Russia's blockbuster: 'Night Watch' comes to the United States PAUL BURKHARDT AP February 12, 2006 A film portraying a world of vampires in modern-day Moscow helped revive the Russian film industry, introducing the term "blockbuster" in a country whose major studios collapsed with the communist government. The fantasy-horror tale "Night Watch" (Nochnoi Dozor) is based ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Feb 13 08:12:14 PST 2006

44 Lord of the Rings:A Libertarian Fable or Fascist Agit-Prop? -- rank: 675

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/msg11837.html All messages from thread "Tolkien Health Warning" Message 1 in thread From: Alex Nichols (xnichols at hotmail.com) Subject: Tolkien Health Warning Newsgroups: alt.politics.socialism.trotsky http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=alt.politics ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed Dec 26 23:10:40 PST 2001

45 Hitch, Hooks, and Stone -- rank: 672

... Relevant > > by Rebecca Traister, Elisabeth Franck and Ian Blecher > > On the morning of Saturday, Oct. 6,a group of filmmakers, > Hollywood executives and writers left little doubt that the age > of irony should not be laid to rest just yet. > > The panelists took part in a discussion called >“Making Movies > ...

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Thu Oct 11 19:27:48 PDT 2001